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  • Investors 'risk missing out' on UK solar building spree

    09 June 2014

    Institutional investors are in danger of missing out on the opportunity to take direct stakes in the swathe of solar plants being constructed ahead of subsidy changes next year, a leading renewables asset manager has warned.

  • UK subsidy changes 'to make life more challenging for solar funds'

    27 May 2014

    Proposed changes in the UK's subsidy regime will make life more challenging for recently listed solar funds, a leading consultant at Grant Thornton has warned.

  • Foresight agrees £100m solar loan facility

    19 May 2014

    Foresight Solar Fund has agreed a £100 million ($168.2 million) debt facility to help fund its plans to double its operating capacity over the next 12 months.

  • GIB commits £7.5m to £15m London biogas plant

    13 May 2014

    The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) is investing £7.5 million ($12.6 million) in an anaerobic digestion plant just outside London.

  • Foresight Solar eyes debt facility and aims to double capacity

    07 April 2014

    Foresight Solar Fund is negotiating loan facilities of up to £100 million ($166 million) to finance further acquisitions.

  • John Laing gets its £160m renewables IPO away

    26 March 2014

    UK infrastructure company John Laing succeeded in publicly listing a renewables fund today, although it took a larger-than-previously-expected stake in the £160 million ($262 million) offering.

  • Renewables IPOs to 'struggle' as London market reaches 'saturation point'

    13 March 2014

    Some of the latest attempts to list renewables vehicles on the London market will fail to get away, or raise as much capital as hoped, as investors warn that the supply of these products begins to outstrip demand.

  • SunEdison agrees financing and imminent sale of first UK projects

    03 March 2014

    SunEdison's first UK solar energy projects are due to be operational later this month, the US-based photovoltaics specialist said.

  • A licence to list?

    14 November 2013

    There has been a welcome increase in the number of renewables firms launching IPOs in 2013. But is this promising spate of activity a sign that investor confidence in the sector is finally growing, or will it prove a false dawn, asks Peter Cripps

  • UK GIB hires managing director for waste and bio-energy

    04 October 2013

    The UK's rapidly expanding Green Investment Bank (GIB) has hired a new managing director for waste and bioenergy, whose remit will include helping to finance the emerging UK anaerobic digestion sector.